DISCIPLINES

Mandatory Disciplines

Scientific Investigation Methodology To address basic aspects of scientific knowledge and of methodological processes, through the description of specific contents, theoretical and methodological support to guide investigations, elaboration of project and research and scientific investigation practices.

Teacher(s): Karen Jansen and Luciano Dias de Mattos Souza

Credits: 03

Biostatistics I

Study of basic statistic methods for critical reading in the health area and for data analysis. Tabular and graphic presentation of data, selection and use of basic techniques of statistic inference and interpretation of its results.

Teacher: Janaína Vieira dos Santos Motta

Credits: 02

Biostatistics II

Study of basic statistic methods for critical reading in the health area and for data analysis. Tabular and graphic presentation of data, selection and use of basic techniques of statistic inference and interpretation of its results.

Teacher: Janaína Vieira dos Santos Motta

Credits: 03

Bioethics in Research

During the last decades, bioethics has emerged as a science of great expression in the global scenario, due to the accelerated biotechnological development. Conflicting matters generated at the core of the diverse scientific fields and structural contradictions in the social, economical, political and cultural areas, find nowadays in bioethics the necessary support to guide conscious decisions towards respect for human life in its broadest sense.

The goals of this discipline are: To discuss the problems in traditional reviews; introducing the concept and general principles of medicine based on evidences; to give students tools to perform systematic reviews; to exercise reading and critical assessment of scientific articles; to introduce the concept of meta-analysis; and to give students knowledge about quantitative and qualitative synthesis (meta-analysis) of randomized clinical essays.

To present concepts and definitions in Epidemiology, which help students in reading and writing scientific texts with the goal of reinforcing the interface proposed by clinical epidemiology between research and professional actions in the health-disease process.

Teacher: Elaine Pinto Albernaz

Credits: 02

Public Health Policies I and II

Aims to introduce national Public Health Policies, guidelines and regulations referring to the main national problems in the health area, especially regarding the population of women, children and adolescents. Also seeks to discuss the dilemmas, challenges and future perspectives regarding those problems.

Teacher: Sandro Schreiber de Oliveira

Credits: 02

Health in the Life Cycle

To promote and stimulate basic actions of health assistance, address the process of growth and normal development of the individual, to assess deviations from normality and to promote, prevent and correct those deviations

Non-mandatory Disciplines

Psychodiagnostic and Psychometric Assessment To teach students methods of clinical interview, to present diagnostic classifications regarding mental health, to stimulate the transcultural construction and validation of scales for mental health, as well as the assessment of scales and inventories.

Assessment and monitoring of the strategies for the model of care, operationalization of the deployment of multi professional teams in basic health units. Focus in actions for health promotion, prevention, recovery, rehabilitation of the most frequent diseases and grievances, and maintenance of the collective health.

Teacher: Sandro Schreiber de Oliveira

Credits: 02

Preventive practices in Mother-Infant Health

Practical acting strategies which promote quality of life and child development, addressing preventive actions for the most frequent causes of mother and infant deaths.